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Thursday, 16 October 2031

What matters on this day

Bhadrapada Krishna Paksha until 1:50 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:26 AM

Sunset5:47 PM

Nakshatra until 4:32 AM, Oct 17

Avoid 1:31 PM – 2:56 PM

Auspicious 11:43 AM – 12:29 PM

AmavasyaAmavasya The monthly new moon: the day for ancestral offerings — tarpana and where kept, shraddha. Mahalaya Amavasya in Ashvina is the year's principal one. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

1:31 PM – 2:56 PM

6:26 AM – 7:51 AM

9:16 AM – 10:41 AM

12:29 PM – 2:00 PM, 4:16 PM – 5:47 PM

These are periods traditionally avoided for starting something. They do not move a festival — an observance fixed by its own rule stays where the rule puts it. More →

Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise6:08 AM

Moonset5:53 PM

Vaidhriti until 6:57 PM

Naga

Guruvara

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